Hi again everyone,
I'd really like to know whether anybody's got their hands on the Ekol Carnivore break barrel airgun with a spring-piston powered plant and whether you've tested it for accuracy and velocity?
Most of you are already familiar with the venerable Hatsan .30 cal, but so far no one else (that I know of), other than custom shops have come up with a .30 cal. break barrel. Hatsan offers their .30 cals in gas-piston (Vortex) and spring-piston driven configurations with the 130S and the 135 Carnivore variants. The thing is that Hatsan airguns are rather expensive, with their .30 cals coming in at in between 300-500 Euros (EU), whereas I've heard the Ekols are going for as low as 200 Euros. I forgot the name of the forum, but it was certainly a dutch (Netherlands) gun related forum with the topic being fixed on big bore airguns and some post mentioned the Ekol .30 caliber Carnivore (a model similar to Major F, but in .30 cal) in priced at 200-250 Euros in the Netherlands.
I've found one dutch retailer selling it for 195 Euros...
www.staaloutdoor.nl
I've recently acquired an Ekol's catalogue of products and beside their blank guns and Co2 pistols there was also a line of PCPs and springers (airguns were listed in a separate script); That's how I became aware of the fact that there is a new Turkish player on the market offering break barrels in .30 cal (ONLY break barrels and PCPs are in .30, there are no underlever guns, and all of the break barrels are seemingly spring-piston driven).
The specs for the Ekol Carnivore say that it can achieve velocities of up to 650 fps ~ 200m/s, could this be true?
Hatsan's Carnivore can only reach up to 550-570 fps with the 44.75gr pellets.
If anyone has got any info on this gun, please let me and the community know, as I'm particularly interested in its characteristics. Have a good one folks.
I'd really like to know whether anybody's got their hands on the Ekol Carnivore break barrel airgun with a spring-piston powered plant and whether you've tested it for accuracy and velocity?
Most of you are already familiar with the venerable Hatsan .30 cal, but so far no one else (that I know of), other than custom shops have come up with a .30 cal. break barrel. Hatsan offers their .30 cals in gas-piston (Vortex) and spring-piston driven configurations with the 130S and the 135 Carnivore variants. The thing is that Hatsan airguns are rather expensive, with their .30 cals coming in at in between 300-500 Euros (EU), whereas I've heard the Ekols are going for as low as 200 Euros. I forgot the name of the forum, but it was certainly a dutch (Netherlands) gun related forum with the topic being fixed on big bore airguns and some post mentioned the Ekol .30 caliber Carnivore (a model similar to Major F, but in .30 cal) in priced at 200-250 Euros in the Netherlands.
I've found one dutch retailer selling it for 195 Euros...
Ekol Carnivore 7,62mm
De Ekol Carnivore is een zeer krachtige luchtbuks in het hoogste kaliber van alle knikloopbuksen: kaliber 7,62mm (.30).
www.staaloutdoor.nl I've recently acquired an Ekol's catalogue of products and beside their blank guns and Co2 pistols there was also a line of PCPs and springers (airguns were listed in a separate script); That's how I became aware of the fact that there is a new Turkish player on the market offering break barrels in .30 cal (ONLY break barrels and PCPs are in .30, there are no underlever guns, and all of the break barrels are seemingly spring-piston driven).
The specs for the Ekol Carnivore say that it can achieve velocities of up to 650 fps ~ 200m/s, could this be true?
Hatsan's Carnivore can only reach up to 550-570 fps with the 44.75gr pellets.
If anyone has got any info on this gun, please let me and the community know, as I'm particularly interested in its characteristics. Have a good one folks.
